Aruba vs Curaçao via Playchess.com

5/5/2006 – Last Saturday the Caribbean islands of Aruba and Curaçao played Internet chess
matches between each other. They were staged on the Playchess
server without technical problems. The youth team of Aruba won both “rapid”
matches against Curaçao, while the Curaçao adult team was clearly stronger
than their opponents from Aruba.
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Aruba-Curaçao Internet match a great success

By Ger Jan Meijer

Last Saturday Aruba and Curaçao played internet matches against each other.
These matches were played at the same time as the internet matches between
Slovenia and Turkey through use of the same format. For Curaçao this was the
second experience in this kind of competition having already played against
Malta and Utrecht in March.

The Youth team of Curaçao in action against Aruba.

The ChessBase development team had made several modifications to the Playchess
software for these kind of matches, including the ability to reconstruct games
(including the clocks times) after disconnection or other disruptions.

In addition there are now two dedicated Chess Stadions available for these
matches. The teams of Aruba and Curaçao had the honor being the first players
of the Wilhelm Steinitz Chess Stadion. While Slovenia and Turkey were the first
players of the Emanuel Lasker stadion. Aruba hosted their teams in a training
room of an IT company, while Curaçao decided again to provide the Cyberspace
room in the Van der Valk Plaza Hotel.

The geographical distance between both islands is not big and the chess players
of both places have a warm friendship with each other. But team matches had
rarely been played in the past. Playing such matches would easily cost a few
thousand dollars for air transportation and lodging. It looks like that with
the Internet matches a new tradition for the island has been born.

Commissioner of Sports Mr. Dennis Jackson

The Commissioner of Sports of the island of Curaçao Mr. Dennis Jackson opened
the match officially. He gave a short speech to both teams by using Skype connection.

The Internet encounter started with two Rapid matches between the youth teams
of the islands. Aruba won both matches (4.0-3.0 and 4.5-3.5).

The winning Youth team of Aruba

The Rapid Chess matches between the adult teams produced surprising results.
Normally the players of Aruba and Curaçao are more or less of the same strength,
though Curaçao may be a little stronger due to the fact that the island has
a higher population and more chess players. On this Saturday everything went
wrong for Aruba. The first match ended in a 7-0 victory for Curaçao and the
second match ended in 5.5- 1.5 for Curaçao.

Ger Jan Meijer, Klaas Dekker and Fabio Mensing were the organizers of the
Curaçao leg of the matches, while Octavio Croes and Maurits Dijkhoff were looking
after the Arubean part. Curaçao is planning to proceed with organizing a four
country internet tournament for both youth and adults team for the weekend
of June 17 and 18.

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